Literary terms for English II
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| Omniscient Point of View | when the narrator knows everything in a piece of literature
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| Ambiguity | Words or phrases with more than one meaning
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| Synecdoche | When part of something stands for a whole, or a whole stands for a part
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| Apostrophe | talking to something or someone that isn't physically there
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| Mood | Feeling or emotion that a work of literature evokes
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| Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls entire literary work
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| Conflict | the struggle within the plot between opposing forces
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| Types of conflict | person vs person person vs society person vs nature person vs self person vs faith/God(s)
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| Setting | place or type of surrounding where something is positions or where and event takes place
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| Theme Statement | turns central meaning of a book into a universal statement
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| Litotes | When something is expressed by negating its opposite. (i was not unhappy)
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| Allusion | a reference in a book to a person, place, or event
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| Paradox | contradictions that make sense on a deeper level
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| protagonist | leading character or hero in a story or novel whose conflict sets the plot in motion
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| Antagonist | one who opposes another negatively (against the protagonist)
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| Point of view | manner of narrator viewing things, attitude, position at which something is observed
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| Connotation | multiple meanings a word carries other than its dictionary definition
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| Diction | choice of particular words with specific type of tone
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| Imagery | text that makes a mental picture using the five senses
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| Animal Imagery | how an author compares situations and characters to animals, or gives them animal characteristics
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| genre | when literature has a certain category or style
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| verbal Irony | use of words that are the opposite of the speakers mind (sarcasm)
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| Framing | using features, wording, location, problems or topic at both the begging and end of a story. (story within a story)
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| situational irony | accidental events that happen that seem oddly appropriate
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| style | writer's creative way determined by choices with diction, figurative language, sounds, rhythmic patterns ect.
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| allegory | interaction of multiple symbols which together create a moral, spiritual, or political meaning
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| figurative language | relates something unfamiliar to something familiar *similes *metaphors *personification
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| oxymoron | two opposing words together (pretty ugly)
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| simile | comparison between to unlike things using like, as, or than
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| hyperbole | exaggeration to emphasize the truth
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| dramatic irony | audience knows the outcome but the character does not
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| tone | attitude or expression towards the audience and or subjects
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| direct characterization | when the author make specific traits about a character to tell about them
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| indirect | the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.
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| syntax | arrangements of how sentences are made with a word or grammatical change
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| antithesis | opposite terms or PHRASES next to each other (it was the best of times , and it was the worst of times)
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| First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my)
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| soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts)
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| denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word
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| metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as
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| personification | giving inanimate objects human traits
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| symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else
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| motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme
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| persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others
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| limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character
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| satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change)
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| antithesis | opposite terms or PHRASES next to each other (it was the best of times , and it was the worst of times)
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| First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my)
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| soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts)
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| denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word
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| metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as
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| personification | giving inanimate objects human traits
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| symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else
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| motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme
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| persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others
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| limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character
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| satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change)
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| synesthesia | use of one sense to describe another sense (that's a loud red)
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| indirect | the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.
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| syntax | arrangements of how sentences are made with a word or grammatical change
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| First Person point of view | the story through the narrators eyes (I, Me, my)
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| soliloquy | spoken in a play when the character believes he/she are alone (thoughts)
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| denotation | literal or dictionary meaning of a word
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| metaphor | comparison/ analogy without using like or as
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| personification | giving inanimate objects human traits
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| symbol | an object that represents or stands for something else
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| motif | incident, object, or theme, that reoccurs throughout a story and supports the theme
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| persona | part of a person's character that is seen by others
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| limited 3rd point of view | narrator knows only the thoughts of a single character
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| satire | use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, a situation (used for change)
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| irony | words or phrase opposite of lteral meaning
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| juxtaposition | state of bring close together or side by side (opposites)
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